This edition: Ali Stroker on Broadway, Breaking Barriers & Motherhood
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Original tape date: August 22, 2025. First aired: September 26, 2025.Tony Award winner Ali Stroker—the first wheelchair user to win Broadway’s top honor—joins Patrick Pacheco to share her journey as performer, author, advocate, and new mom. From “Spring Awakening” to “Oklahoma!”, from reality TV to a one-woman cabaret, Ali reflects on breaking barriers and building legacy.
\This episode also introduces Torchbearers: “Theater Luminaries” — a new series within Theater: All The Moving Parts, celebrating artists who are lighting the path toward Broadway’s future. Ali Stroker launches the series as our first Torchbearer—an artist whose breakthroughs define Broadway’s next chapter.
In this episode:
On turning limitations into opportunities — “I live by this motto of turning your limitations into opportunities. That’s been really successful in my life.”
On empowerment — “Everyone was looking at me, but it was because I was the star… it felt like I could hold an audience in the palm of my hand and entertain them.”
On navigating barriers — “They said, listen, Ali, we’re not sure if this is going to work out because we’re not comfortable with you taking dance class. That was the beginning of my education in what it was going to be like in this industry.”
On redefining entrances — “I no longer wanted to be carried onto stages. I wanted to enter in my power, in my body, in my skin.”
On hope and legacy — “Audrey has so much hope for her future, and I think that is… it’s a way that I would describe myself as a dreamer and someone who has hope in everything, in other people, in my own life, in my son’s life, for my community, for the disabled community.”
On advocacy — Honored with TDF’s inaugural Christina Trivigno Advocate Award for her impact on accessibility and inclusion.
Special performance — Ali performs “Somewhere That’s Green” from “Little Shop of Horrors,” a song that has taken on new meaning in her life.
On history-making moments — Becoming the first actor in a wheelchair on Broadway (“Spring Awakening”) and the first to win a Tony Award (“Oklahoma!”).
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Ali Stroker Actor/Singer, "Oklahoma!"
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